2 74 T^^^c PytcJiley Hunt, Past and Prese7it. 



Navy was looked upon by tliose connected with the 

 service^ as of especial value. Family arrang'ements having 

 obliged him to quit his Northamptonshire home for one 

 in Hampshire, Mr. Liddell got his hunting for a few 

 seasons in the neighbourhood of Lyndhurst. 



Although missing the big grass field and the flying 

 fences of the country he had quitted, there is a charm 

 about the New Forest which no other district can boast 

 — one too, which few were so well able to appreciate and 

 enjoy as this late member of the ^'V.TLJ" On being 

 called to the Upper House, Lord Ravensworth retired to 

 his noble seat in the county of Durham, and now obtains 

 his hunting in a region about as opposite to those in 

 which he was wont to follow hounds in his earlier days, 

 as the parts about Sywell Wood differ from those in the 

 neighbourhood of Misterton or Crick. 



THE REV. HENRY ROKEBY. 



At the door of the picturesque old Manor House of 

 Arthingworth, dispensing hospitality to a bevy of horse- 

 men on their way from Sunderland Wood to Kelmarsh, 

 stands the Lord of the Manor — the representative of 

 the ancient House of Rokeby. Combining in his own 

 person a double function, Mr. Rokeby occupies the 

 hybrid position so well known in country social life as 

 " Squarson,^' a compound of squire and of parson, smack- 

 ing partly of the world, partly of the Church, and entail- 

 ing duties secular as well as clerical. To blend these so 

 discreetly as not to allow one in any way to interfere 

 with the other, has been the constant and successful 



